Friday 28 September 2012

Some nice Words and their meanings - Vocabulary

Abstain - refrain, desist, forbear,
               (If you abstain from something, usually something you want to do, you deliberately do not do it.)

Adept - skillful, expert, 
             ( Someone who is adept at something can do it skilfully )
(Example. He's usually very adept at keeping his private life out of media )

Adhere - stick, abide by, cling, 
               ( If you adhere to a rule or agreement you act in a way that it says you should)
(Example. All members of the association adhere to a strict code of practice.)

Blasphemy - profanity, cursing, obscenity, vulgarity, obscene
                    (You can describe something that shows disrespect for God or a religion as blasphemy)
(Example. He was found guilty of blasphemy and sentenced to three years in jail)

Exquisite - delicate, fine, graceful, polished, refined
                   ( Something that is exquisite is extremely beautiful or pleasant, especially in a delicate way.)
(Example. Ravi's photography is exquisite.)

Gregarious - affable, amiable, cordial, outgoing, sociable
                     ( Someone who is gregarious enjoys being with other people.)
(Example. She is such a gregarious and outgoing person.)

Fragile - weak, brittle, frail, delicate, friable
               ( If you describe a situation as fragile, you mean that it is weak or uncertain and likely to be able to resist strong pressure or attack.)
(Example. The fragile economies of several south African nations could be irreparably damaged.)

This much is fine for today. Will provide you with some more interesting words tomorrow. Check daily for some new words to add to your vocab.

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Friday 21 September 2012

Specialized agencies of UNO and their Headquarters


First of all lets know about UNO :

Origin of UNO : The U.N.O came into existence in 1945.

Headquarters of UNO : New York

Flag of UNO : White U.N. emblem is superimposed on light blue background. The emblem consist of the global map projected from the North Pole and embraced in twin olive branches.

Languages : The official languages of the UNO are English, French, Chinese, Russian, Arabic and Spanish but the working languages are English and French.

Main Organs of UNO
1. General assembly
2. Security council
3. Economic and social Council 
4. Trusteeship Council
5. International Court of Justice
6. Secretariat

Specialized Agencies of the UNO with their Headquarters

Agencies                                                                  Headquarters

Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO)             Rome

International labour Organisation (ILO)                  Geneva

World Health Organisation (WHO)                        Geneva

United Nations Educational Scientific and           
Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)                            Paris

International Bank for Reconstruction &
Development (IBRD) or World Bank                     Washington

International Monetary Fund (IMF)                        Washington

International Finance Corporation (IFC)                 Washington

International Civil Aviation Organisation(ICAO)     Montreal

International Telecommunication Union (ITD)        Geneva

World Meteorological Organisation (WMO)            Geneva

United Nations International Children's
Emergency Fund (UNICEF)                                     New York

Inter-governmental Maritime Consultative
Organisation (IMCO)                                                London

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)           Vienna

Technical Assistance Administration (TAA)               
Economic and Social Commission for Asia 
and the Pacific (ESCAP)                                           Bangkok

United Nations High Commission for 
Refugees (UNHCR)                                                  Geneva


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Wednesday 12 September 2012

The Largest, longest, Biggest, Highest, Smallest etc in the world



Largest Bird - Ostrich
Biggest Bridge in the world - San Francisco, Oakland Bridge (8.5 miles)
Longest Bridge in the world (on river) - Mahatma Gandhi Setu (India)
Tallest building in the world - Burj Khalifa (829.84 m (2,723 ft))
Largest country in the world (By land mass) - Russia (6,592,846 sq miles)
Largest country in the world (By population) - China (1,347,350,000)
Smallest country (by land mass) - Vatican city
Smallest country (by population) - Vatican city
Biggest continent - Asia
Smallest continent - Australia
Longest Epic - Mahabharat
Biggest island in the world - Greenland
Biggest ocean - Pacific
World's biggest museum - British Museum, London
Highest Mountain - Mount Everest
Largest Peninsula - Arabia
Biggest Planet - Jupiter
Smallest Planet - Mercury
Brightest Planet - Venus
Highest Volcano - Cotopaxy (Andes, Equador)

other important general awareness topics are....
cabinet ministers of india with their departments
Chief ministers of all states
Nartional parks and wildlife sanctuaries in india
first in the world
famous inventions and discoveries
Books and their authors
cups and trophies


Monday 10 September 2012

Cabinet Ministers of India with their departments 2012 (updated)




                                
Prime Minister

President

Vice President



Department
Manmohan Singh

Pranab Mukherjee

Mohammed Hamid Ansari




Name of Minister


Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions,
Ministry of Planning,
Department of Atomic Energy and
Department of Space
Manmohan Singh

Minister of FinanceP. Chidambaram

Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Food Processing IndustriesSharad Pawar

Minister of DefenceA.K. Antony

Minister of Home AffairsSushil Kumar Shinde

Minister of External AffairsS.M. Krishna

Minister of Science and Technology
Minister of Earth Sciences
Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
Vilasrao Deshmukh,( who died on August 14 2012.)
Vayalar Ravi

Minister of Health and Family WelfareGhulam Nabi Azad

Minister of PowerM. Veerappa Moily

Minister of Corporate AffairsM. Veerappa Moily

Minister of New and Renewable EnergyFarooq Abdullah

Minister of Petroleum and Natural GasS. Jaipal Reddy

Minister of Urban DevelopmentKamal Nath

Minister of Civil AviationAjit Singh

Minister of Overseas Indian AffairsVayalar Ravi

Minister of Information and BroadcastingMrs. Ambika Soni

Minister of Labour and EmploymentMallikarjun Kharge

Minister of Human Resource Development and Minister of Communications and Information TechnologyKapil Sibal

Minister of Commerce and Industry and Minister of TextilesAnand Sharma

Minister of Road Transport and HighwaysC.P. Joshi

Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and Minister of CultureMs. Selja

Minister of TourismSubodh Kant Sahay

Minister of ShippingG.K. Vasan

Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Minister of Water ResourcesPawan Kumar Bansal

Minister of Social Justice and EmpowermentMukul Wasnik

Minister of Chemicals and FertilizersM.K. Alagiri

Minister of Heavy Industries and Public EnterprisesPraful Patel

Minister of CoalShriprakash Jaiswal

Minister of Law and Justice and Minister of Minority AffairsSalman Khursheed

Minister of Tribal Affairs and Minister of Panchayati RajV. Kishore Chandra Deo

Minister of SteelBeni Prasad Verma

Minister of RailwaysMukul Roy

Minister of Rural DevelopmentJairam Ramesh


Other important General awareness topics are.....

Chief ministers of all states
Nartional parks and wildlife sanctuaries in india
first in the world
famous inventions and discoveries
Books and their authors
cups and trophies


Saturday 8 September 2012

Chief Ministers of different States of India ( updated 8/9/2012 )


Jammu & Kashmir - Omar Abdullah , J&K national conference
Himachal Pradesh - Prem Kumar Dhumal , BJP
Punjab - Parkash Singh Badal , Shiromni Akali Dal
Uttarakhand - Vijay Bahuguna , INC
Haryana - Bhupinder Singh Hooda , INC
Uttar Pradesh - Akhilesh Yadav , SP
Rajasthan - Ashok Gehlot , Congress
Bihar - Nitish Kumar , Janta Dal (United)
Sikkim - Pawan Kumar Chamling , Sikkim democratic Front
West Bengal - Mamata Banerjee , Al Trinamool Congress
Assam - Tarun Kumar Gogoi , INC
Arunachal Pradesh - Nabam Tuki , INC
Nagaland - Neiphiu Rio , Nagaland People's Front
Manipur - Okram Ibobi Singh , INC
Meghalaya - Mukul sangma , INC
Tripura - Manik Sarkar , Communist party of India 
Mizoram - Lal Thanhawla , INC
Jharkhand - Arjun Munda , BJP
Madhya Pradesh - Shivraj Singh Chauhan , BJP
Gujarat - Narendra Modi , BJP
Chhattisgarh - Raman Singh , BJP
Orissa - Naveen Patnaik , Biju Janata Dal
Maharashtra - Prithviraj Chavan , INC
Andhra Pradesh - Nallari Kiran Kumar Reddy , INC
Karnataka Jagadish Shettar  , BJP
TamilNadu - J. Jayalalithaa , AIDMK
Kerala - Oommen Chandy , INC
Puducherry - N Rangaswamy

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Thursday 6 September 2012

Books and their authors - Part 2

Before learning these you must also learn  Books and their Authors Part 1
Now here we go.......

Books                        Authors

Mrityunjaya - Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya
Origin of Species , Descent of Man - Charles Darwin
Panchtantra - Vishnu Sharma
Paradise  Lost - John Milton
Raghuvansh - Kalidas
Rajtarangini - Kalhana
Ramayana - Valmiki
Ram Charit Manas , Vinay Patrika - Tulsi Das
Shakuntala - Kalidas
Shah Nama - Firdausi
Saket , Yashodhara , Bharat Bharati - Maithili Sharan Gupta
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
The greater Common Good - Arundhati Roy
The Train to Pakistan - Khushwant Singh
Wake up india - Annie Besant
Wings of Fire , Ignited Minds - Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
Living History - Hillary Clinton
Two Lives - Vikram Seth
Straight from the Heart - Kapil Deo
Harry Potter - JK Rowling
Of Thee i sing - Barack Obama

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National parks and Wildlife Sanctuaries in India
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Tuesday 4 September 2012

Difference between String, StringBuffer and StringBuilder class in Java.


The main difference between String and StringBuffer class is that the objects of String class are immutable ( that cannot be changed ) while the objects of StringBuffer and StringBuilder class are mutable (that can be changed )
Now here is a question that if String objects are immutable how we are able to change the value of object when we want? Actually when we change the value of a String object, internally a new object is created and our reference variable starts pointing that new object and the previous object still remains in memory as garbage. Thus this create performance issue, and we use StringBuffer and StringBuilder class to create mutable objects.

For Example :

//consider a string object
String A = "Hello" ;
//If we want to append "friend" to this string, we do
A = A + "Friend" ;

When we print the content of A we get "Hello Friend" as the output. But it is the new object of string class that is created. And if we append any further in this string it will create that many objects of String class internally.

However when using StringBuffer/StringBuilder class we can make changes to the value stored as its objects are mutable. Hence append operation would be more efficient if use StringBuffer in place of String class.

To append using StringBuilder class we use append( ) operation as:

StringBuilder A = "Hello" ;
A.append("Friend") ;

And the changes will be made in the Object A

Now, Difference between StringBuffer and StringBuilder

StringBuffer and StringBuilder have the same methods with one difference and that’s of synchronization. StringBuffer is synchronized( which means it is thread safe and hence you can use it when you implement threads for your methods) whereas StringBuilder is not synchronized( which implies it isn’t thread safe).
So, if you aren’t going to use threading then use the StringBuilder class as it’ll be more efficient than StringBuffer due to the absence of synchronization.


*Also all these three classes are final and hence cannot be extended.

To know more about final keyword click here


Saturday 1 September 2012

First in The World


President of USA - George Washington
Chinese Traveller to India - Fahein
Foreign Invader to India - Alexander the Great
Person to reach South Pole - Amundsen
Person to reach North Pole - Robert Pearey
Person in Space - Yuri Gagarin
Person on Moon - Neil Armstrong
Lady to climb Mount Everest - Junko Taibei
European to visit China - Marco Polo
Place where first atom bomb was dropped - Hiroshima
Man to walk in Space - Alexei Leonov
Woman Cosmonaut in Space - Valentina Tereshkova
Woman President of a country - Mrs Srimavo Bhandarnaike
Woman President of a country - Maria Estela Peron
The first space astronaut to go into space seven times till date - Jerry Ross ( U.S.A )
China's First Man in space - Yang Liwei